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Speaker 1: And finally, this afternoon.

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Speaker 2: This is per one thousand people, you're freezing their butts

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Speaker 2: off waiting to worship a rat.

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Speaker 1: Animal rights group Peter has called for the town of

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Speaker 1: punk Satawny this is to abandon its annual Groundhog Day tradition.

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Speaker 1: This is in Pennsylvania and the United States. So every

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Speaker 1: year the town holds a ceremony where a man chats

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Speaker 1: to a groundhog live on stage to see if spring

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Speaker 1: will come early that year. Is this real? Peter says

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Speaker 1: it's cruel to subject a groundhog to a noisy announcer,

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Speaker 1: screaming crowds and flashing lights, and the townspeople should bake

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Speaker 1: a vegan weather reveal cake every year instead. International correspondence

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Speaker 1: with ends and eye insurance, peace of mind for New

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Speaker 1: Zealand business hope me in the eye with a burnt stick.

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Speaker 1: Twenty two to five. Murray Olds is here our Australia correspondent,

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Speaker 1: Murray Good afternoon could be worse.

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Speaker 2: They could shoot it. At least they just asking students.

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Speaker 1: I don't think Peter would approve of that. No, I

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Speaker 1: think Peter would approve of that. Somehow, Murray, the Aussie

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Speaker 1: tex stocks have taken a hit from this deep seak news.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. Australia has not to the same extent

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Speaker 2: as in Vidio. But I mean who would have thought it?

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Speaker 2: As Laura said, I mean, gee whiz China making cheap stuff?

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Speaker 2: Who would have thought that? Anyway, Australian text talks haven't

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Speaker 2: been belted the I just grabbed some notes, I ran

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Speaker 2: out of the newsroom. You've got an outfit called next DC.

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Speaker 2: It's a giant data center mob that's down nearly eight

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Speaker 2: percent in early trading, the lowest share price fourteen and

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Speaker 2: a half dollars lowest in about fifteen months. You've got

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Speaker 2: Newick's biggest fall down to three dollars thirty clothes on

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Speaker 2: Friday five dollars forty, so that's twenty percent in the

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Speaker 2: last five days. And there's an outfit called Megaport. And

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Speaker 2: you know, you get the picture and that clip you

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Speaker 2: played from that guy. It is like a casino. It's

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Speaker 2: the ties bit pumped up with a video like you

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Speaker 2: just can't believe. And there was one story and now

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Speaker 2: I won't go down that path because I haven't got

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Speaker 2: the direct quote in front of me, but suffice to say,

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Speaker 2: and video was just enjoying this massive honeymoon, and there

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Speaker 2: was a guy who read this morning that it was

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Speaker 2: never going to last. And sure enough and on comes

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Speaker 2: this Chinese mob and they've just pulled that air right

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Speaker 2: out of the balloon.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's still worth let's not. This company's

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Speaker 1: only been around a few years. I think they were

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Speaker 1: founded in twenty twenty one or twenty twenty two or something.

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Speaker 1: So to go from that to three trillion American dollars

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Speaker 1: and market cap even after the cut today is pretty

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Speaker 1: incredible stuff.

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Speaker 2: But it happened about four hundred years ago with tulips

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Speaker 2: in Holland.

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Speaker 1: Well true, quite right, Hey, Peter Dutton. So he's on

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Speaker 1: his way to becoming the Prime minister and now he's

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Speaker 1: threatening the UN for a shakeup.

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Speaker 2: Oh mate, he's just look. I think he rang up

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump and said, ay, Donny, would you mind sending

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Speaker 2: me an email of your playbook because he's cranking out

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Speaker 2: the you know, in my first one hundred days, all

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Speaker 2: this sort of stuff. And here he is, he's named

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Speaker 2: this bloke, he's you know, he's really risen without without

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Speaker 2: a trace. And the coalition to guy called David Coleman.

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Speaker 2: He's now the new shadow Foreign Affairs minister. I mean

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Speaker 2: he wouldn't say boot too a goose anyway, he's busy

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Speaker 2: there wonking away like that big goose from the big

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Speaker 2: table at the top of the room with Dutton's and

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Speaker 2: Promata saying oh, look, we have to improve the United Nations.

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, yes, yes, the UN has immense room for improvement.

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Speaker 2: The multilateral body far from effective. It's an organization, says Coleman,

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Speaker 2: with important goals. When it works effectively, it's good. But plainly,

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Speaker 2: when you look at some of the UN resolutions on

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Speaker 2: issues such as the Middle East, is not always effective

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Speaker 2: and as far often and is often far from effective.

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Speaker 2: So we're going to get a lot more of this

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Speaker 2: stuff between now election day. It really is. It's Trump

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Speaker 2: light over here with the opposition. He's every every single

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Speaker 2: card he can play.

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Speaker 1: He is fair enough. I suppose firefighters have put out

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Speaker 1: a warning about we've got this problem in New Zealand

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Speaker 1: as well, but the e bike batteries.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Now, there was a stat Christmas time. I

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Speaker 2: did a couple of stories on this in New South

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Speaker 2: Wales last year they had more than one of these

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Speaker 2: fires a week and two people died when their apartment

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Speaker 2: caught fire because the people are going home with their

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Speaker 2: e bikes and their e scooters, plugging him into the

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Speaker 2: wall and then going to bed. And the thing is

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Speaker 2: if these things catch fire, and they can. As we've

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Speaker 2: all seen, people are getting trapped, they're jumping out of

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Speaker 2: windows and so on. One really bright sparkle on the

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Speaker 2: Gold Coast. He came home after a big day out

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Speaker 2: in the scooter. Gee wherez it feels pretty hot, I

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Speaker 2: might wack it in the freezer. So that's what he's done.

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Speaker 2: Bomb for some reason. I mean, I don't know why.

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Speaker 2: I'm not a chemist, but I mean, this thing is

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Speaker 2: literally blown up in the freezer. There's one guy who's

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Speaker 2: climbed out under a balcony. Another one had to jump.

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Speaker 2: You've got fire officers up there saying, listen, these rechargeable batteries, right,

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Speaker 2: you're supposed to look after them. You're not supposed to

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Speaker 2: soup them up so they can go faster. You're supposed

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Speaker 2: to not charge them up on soft furnishings like under

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Speaker 2: blankets and whatnot. Because there's a thing called a thermal runaway,

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Speaker 2: which sounds pretty dramatic, but it can kill people. And

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Speaker 2: look at it explodes, it catches, look at, heats up,

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Speaker 2: explodes and the joint is all of a sudden burning.

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Speaker 2: So if any more warnings had to be put out,

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Speaker 2: this case up in Queensland certainly has underlined that significance.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like it. Murray, thank you very much for that.

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Speaker 1: Great to have you on the show. As always, for

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